William S. Haymond

William Summerville Haymond (* February 20, 1823 at Clarksburg, Virginia, † December 24, 1885 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Haymond was born in 1823 near Clarksburg in what is now West Virginia. He attended the common schools and then studied at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City Medicine. After his were made in 1852, medical license, he began to practice in this profession in Monticello (Indiana). During the Civil War he was in the years 1862 and 1863 military surgeon in the army of the Union.

Politically, Haymond member of the Democratic Party. In 1866 he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Indiana. He then joined in the railway business. In the years 1872-1874 he was president of a railroad company. In the congressional elections of 1874 Haymond was in the tenth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Henry B. Sayler on March 4, 1875. Since he lost in 1876 against William H. Calkins, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives William Haymond took his previous activities on again. In 1877 he founded the Central Medical College in Indianapolis, whose dean he remained until his death. In 1879 he published a treatise on the history of Indiana. He died on December 24, 1885 in Indianapolis, where he was also buried.